SAFETY TOOLBOX - Advanced Defensive Strategies and Tactical Tools for Pool & Pocket Billiards

by ALLAN SAND

Overview

The book teaches how to trick and trap your opponent into helping you win. The game can be much more fun when you can identify and use your opponent's weaknesses and strengths against him.

Learn about basic safety types, opponent analysis, a lot of tricks and traps, and the necessary precision exercises (which also improves your offensive skills).

You don't have to win to win. Sometimes it is more fun to help your opponent lose!!

Also available in Print.

If you prefer the PDF format, it is available on the billiard gods web site. FYI - PDF can be viewed on all your smart devices (phone, tablet, computer).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012658111
Publisher:	Billiard Gods Productions
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

I have been a billiards instructor for a long time. My playing and competitive experience goes back over 50 years and across the continents of the world.

In my years (decades actually) of playing pool, about my only guide to playing better was Mosconi's "Winning Pocket Billiards". It helped - a lot. When that was learned and applied, I was still losing lots of games. I must have been a slow learner, because I allowed myself to stay at a solid intermediate level for a long time.

Then, a particularly irritating friend of mine started playing. Off-table he was a very good friend. But on-table he treated me badly - not only outshooting me, but taunting and twisting (and twisting) the knife of defeat.

I could handle the verbal abuse - since I always gave as good as I got.
But I got REAL tired of being beaten. That's when I decided to start figuring out WHY he was walking all over my bruised body. I started paying more attention to what he did and how he did it.

That was the turning point of my pool playing competency. I started understanding just how complex and even more enjoyable was this Green Game. Being a helpful kind of guy, I started giving beginning players little tips and ideas to help them shoot better. It's no fun beating up a weak player, so I coached them along with my new discoveries.

And, that leads to my career as an author and commercial writer. The books I write include every little trick and shortcut that I have discovered over my decades of playing shooters of all skills. Buried within each book are dozens of little tricks that have double benefits. For example, in "Cue Ball Control Cheat Sheets", when you learn the shot, you are forced to pay VERY close attention to the cue tip/ball connection. Which, FYI, is the true secret to getting real good at pool.

If you REALLY want to own the information in each book, there must be evidence. A printed book should be dog-eared, dirty with chalk, with notes and observations on each page. An ebook should have worn out at least two or three batteries on your device.

FYI, I have a blog (three actually) on my billiardgods web site.
- "Good to Know" Pool Stuff
- Drills & Exercises
- Challenge Shootouts

Read, enjoy, comment on the posts. Tell your shooting buddies, playing relatives, and table enemies about the stuff. Have fun, enjoy, and shoot straight.

Editorial Reviews

Allan Sand is back to analyze the defensive aspects of pool. And what a thorough analysis it is, too: banking into safeties, blocking pockets, clusters, dead zones, those valuable "two-way" shots, and many, many other areas of defensive play. He begins with the theory that the purpose of safety play is to allow you to maintain control of the table, and commences from there.

Billiards Diagest, July 2008 - George Fels

(DPM Universal Billiard Instructors Association, Head Master Instructor)

I found it quite unique and very comprehensive. The large amount of information placed into this advancement in the art of instructional guides is more than can be absorbed in just a few weeks of study. There is enough here to keep a pocket billiard enthusiast busy for years.

You have made it easy to learn Safeties. The student can start with one area of interest and when that is mastered, pick another.

AZ billiards Forum - Darrell Paul Martineau

(owner, World PPA)
Just completed reviewing your latest book "Safety Toolbox" and I feel its your best yet! I like the way you've incorporated voice so that end users can click and listen... You've obviously put a lot of time and energy into the "Safety Toolbox".

I honestly tried to think of tactics or tricks you might have neglected. The "Safety Toolbox" is like a Swiss Army Knife! It has everything one needs to know about safety playing. You've let the cat out of the bag!

AZ billiards forum - Bob Beaulieu